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Between Old Dependencies and New Independencies. What Can a Gendered Approach Can Offer to Politics?
Many works from Social Sciences have shown how gender deal with politics and power (de Beauvoir 1971: 301; Deleuze and Guattari 1983; Molyneux 1985b; Flax 1990; Caroll and Dodson 1991; Foucault 1993; Butler 1999: 59-62; Butler 2008; Foucault 2011….). Some alert us on the effect of hegemonic masculinity and how women have succeeded in gaining power in some field and not in some others, as well as in some places of the World and not in others. Others, on the contrary, discuss the...

Many thousands of people demonstrated on March 8, 2014 demanding the promulgation of the law to protect women from domestic violence. It was the biggest feminist manifestation in the history of Lebanon and which started after a number of cases largely covered by the media of women killed or beaten by their husbands. In this context we have decided to observe how the daily press reflected the emergence of the feminist movement and what place it has reserved for women during this period through the cartoons. This article proposes the examination of a corpus of cartoons in four Lebanese daily ...

The Arab Spring is a social movement triggered by a complex set of social, political and economic factors. Despite the initial success of the Arab Spring in ousting some of the bureaucraticauthoritarian status-quo oriented regimes, mass mobilization of people could not oust all dictatorships and introduce meaningful reforms toward more democratization in the region. Worse, the mass protests that started as part of the Arab Spring later deteriorated into utter chaos and even civil war in some parts of the region. With the disappearance of state authority in those places, sub-state actors gai...